Coal-carrying vehicle



(No Model.)

T. lVIE-HT. GOAL CARRYING VEHICLE. No. 590,897. Patented Sept. 28,18971 J v 7 j A TTOHNE Y S.

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THEODOR 'ME-HT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COAL-CARRYING VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming partrof Letters Patent No. 590,897, dated September 28, 1897.

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To @ZZ whom t may concern:

' Be it known that I, IHEODOR MEHT, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Ooal-Oarrying Vehicle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention-relates to improvements in coal-carrying vehicles-such, forinstance, as dumping-carts, dumping-wagons, or to any style of wheel-vehicles for carrying coal-and the object is to provide means for sifting fine pulverized coal, dirt, the., from the body of the coal when the same is being discharged from the vehicle at its place of destination, thus rendering the coal comparatively clean when delivered. f

The invention consists in the construction and novel arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter specilied, and pointed out in the appended claims.

I have here shown theinvention as applied to a dumping-cart, but, as before stated, it is not to be confined thereto.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a top plan View of a cart embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2of Fig. lgand Fig. 3 isasection of a portion of the bottom of the cart, showing my invention applied thereto on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the body portion of the vehicle, here shown as having adepression 2 in its bottom, at the rear end. The said depression may extend nearly one-half the length of the vehicle-bottom. Arranged in this depression is a series of cross-bars 3, connected to end pieces 4 and 5. These several bars and'end pieces form a screen for retaining pulverized coal or dirt, tbc. The top plane of the screen will be substantially on a level with the highest plane of the bottom of the vehicle-body.

For convenience in cleaning away the dirt gathered b y the screen I provide a hinge connection between its forward end and the bottom of the vehicle-body. As here shown, this hinge connection consists of hooks 6, de-

signed to engage removably in eyes 7, attached to the bottom of the vehicle-body.

For the purpose of strength the several bars 3 may be connected between the end bars 4 and 5 by means of rods-S and 9, which extend through holes inthe several bars 3. On the barS are pivoted two supporting-legs 10. As a means for holding the screen in its operative position I attach a iingerll to its rear bar t, the said linger ll being designed to pass through an opening in the bottom of the vehicle-body and to be engaged by a pin l2, passing through a hole in said finger underneath the bottom of the vehicle-body and attached to the vehicle-bod y bya chain or other iiexible connection.

It is obvious that when the coal is forced over the screen a greater part, if not alhof the dirt contained in the Acoal will be sifted into the screen and be retained thereby. After returning to the'coal-yard the dirt may be cleaned out by raising the screen and supporting it as indicated in dotted lines in Fig.

3, or, if desired, the screen may be wholly removed'by detaching the hooks'G from the eyes 7.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- l. The combina-tion with a vehicle-body, of a bott-0in therefor, havinga depressed por- Ation in its rear end, a screen in the depressed portion, bars connecting the ends thereof, hooks on the inner end bar, and eyes on the bottom of the vehicle-body with which said hooks engage, and pivoted legs for supporting the screen in an elevated position, substantially as specified.

2. A vehicle having the bottom of its body depressed for a port-ion of its length, a screen hinged in said depressed portion and normally on a line with'the main portion of the bottom, and devices substantially as described for holding said screen in an elevated and in its normal position7 as-set forth.

3. In a vehicle'for carrying coal, the combination with the body thereof, of a bottom for said body having a depressed portion in its rear end, a screen in said depressed portion, bars connecting the ends thereof, the forward end bar having a hinged connection IOO with tho bottom of tho body, :t finger zttrods aud by which the screen is hold elevated, tache?1 to the outer ond bar 1and adapted to as specified.

ass t lounh au o )eniuf in t 1e said bottom Y, 1 i y 1 gpn passirg throulgh sail finger and. by Whio l HROD OR M hu' l 5 said screen is looked on a line with the main Vitnesses:

portion of the bottom, strengthening-rods for C. R. FERGUSON, said screen, and legs pivoted to one of said WILLIAM P. GOEBEL. 

